©2022

220 pages ; 21 cm.

Michael, a man in his early forties, who suffers from Tourette syndrome and comes out of the closet, returns to the room of his youth. The memories don't let him sleep, and he faces them and his older brother, who supported him from childhood through all his hardships, until he stopped and immigrated to Australia, leaving Michael alone to deal with his parents' complicated relationship as well. Next to Michael, on the bed that was his brother's, lie Vadim and Natasha - two dogs who witnessed one intense and too short love, which ended in a painful suddenness, and now Michael has no one to tell about it. After two collections of stories, Eitan Dror-Perrier builds an unusual novel that confronts memory with life itself and gender identity with parenting, and continues to develop his special voice in it, which has already earned him the Sapir Prize for debut books. --- online translation

Title on title page verso: Thou shalt not love / Eytan Freier-Dror

Hebrew

October 04, 2022

Israel Tel Aviv.